Marketing services firm, Scangroup Limited, is turning to the South African region in its expansion plan after its foray into West Africa hit a snag.

Multi-billion dollar commitments have been made to help connect 90 per cent of Africa with the rest of the world in the next five years.

The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has floated international tenders for the construction of a parallel pipeline from Nairobi to Eldoret to raise the pumping capacity of refined fuel.

Celtel Kenya is taking the tariff war in the mobile phone sector a notch higher with new charges for pre-paid customers that take effect today.

Kenya seems to have gained a useful friend in billionaire entrepreneur and adventurer, Sir Richard Branson. He wants the country's tourism industry resuscitated in a hurry, and has decided to do more than mouth platitudes - he is willing to

In September 2007, as Kenya was busy preparing for a date with destiny, the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC) was set up to salvage the country's foreign reserves from the dollar meltdown.

Investors who borrowed bank loans to buy shares during the Safaricom Initial Public Offering (IPO) are considering having to re-pay loans on much lower share allocations than they had applied for, following news that the offer has been highly oversubscribed.

The demand for lower mobile phone calling rates has dawned on prepaid subscribers at mobile telephone company Celtel Kenya.

Nothing signifies the slumber in the insurance industry like the failure of the regulator to publish an annual report that can help Kenyans understand how it is performing.

An article appearing in Business Daily (May 12) titled Kenya Tea Loses Flavour in Pakistan must have alarmed local tea producers.

The European Commission has donated Sh32 million for drought management programmes in Moyale to boost pastoral livelihoods and improve animal husbandry in the region.

The agricultural sector is set to benefit from an increase of four per cent in the Agriculture ministry's budgetary allocation for the next fiscal year.

A religious organisation has sent food worth Sh2.5 million to the starving Boni community in Lamu District.

Whenever I drive into a fuel station, I feel like I am going to empty my pockets. Fuel prices are going crazy. With interest rates going up and petrol prices rising so fast, some people are trading in their "fuel

The Government is going to streamline importation of sugar in order to protect local millers from unfair competition from cheap imports.

It is mid-morning and at Wang'aya village in Nyando District farmers are tending their crops.

United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today started distributing food and clean water to tens of thousands of people who fled fighting in the disputed Sudanese town of Abyei last week.

An international agency will spend Sh325 million to improve the production capacity of local farmers in the face of rising global food prices.